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[3], According to publicly available well records from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, the Bertha Rogers hole ceased production of natural gas in July 1997 and has since been plugged and abandoned. On the rig floor, fishing tools had to be lowered by a line into the well, armed at their end with spears, clamps and hooks. Water and halite (salt) are less dense than most rocks. One other observation: the higher ratio of gas to oil in the deeper (older) strata compared to that in the more shallow (younger) strata is consistent with the cracking of liquid hydrocarbons to produce gaseous hydrocarbons due to increasing heat with depth. However, valuable core samples were obtained and a lot was learned about deep sea drilling. This is a Forest Gump breakthrough. The deeper you drill, the greater both the pressure and the resistance. She was a member of Jeter Chapel Baptist Church. Until the 1960s,few companies couldrisk millions of dollars and push rotary rig drilling technology to reach beyondthe 13,000-foot level in what geologists called the deep gas play.. Then, Duh! Gordon, when mountain ranges erode away and get left in various places on the way to the sea, it is more commonly by water and ice, than by wind. The depths on the chart are approximations based on a generalized geothermal gradient. That is the current record for a depth reached by humans. Subduction, in geology, is the process whereby a tectonic plate is forced down into the mantle of the earth. Luckily, the oil industry does not have such human obstacles, and drilling deep into the Earths crust is instead limited by a different set of circumstances how deep can the machinery and technology go before the unfathomable heat and pressure renders it inoperable? Several separate mountain ranges have been uplifted and eroded away. Looking a little more closely, it seems perhaps Fuel Fighter, or whoever made that graphic, may have not known the difference between feet and meters. The deepest hole by far is one on the Kola Peninsula in Russia near Murmansk, referred to as the "Kola well." The Kola well has now penetrated about halfway through the crust of the Baltic continental shield, exposing rocks 2.7 billion years old at the bottom (for comparison, the Vishnu schist at the bottom of the Grand Canyon dates to about 2 billion years--the earth itself is about 4.6 billion years old). Drilling time and depth improved with the addition of steam power and tall, wooden derricks. Traces of octane and other heavier hydrocarbons, presumably formed by the Fischer-Tropsch process have been detected at the Mid-Atlantic Lost City hydrothermal vent. . Details of course are sketchy is some cases, being as how people are trying to get a clear idea of events that occurred long ago, and for which there is often incomplete, conflicting, or unclear evidence. We acknowledge the Alaska Native nations upon whose ancestral lands our campuses reside. Here is a link to the site of a geologist who appears to have researched it carefully, and gives references, etc, including details of how one person giving a misattribution can lead to others repeating things that are not true, over a century later. At this point that has never, IFAIK, happened. We would all like to know what is inside the Earth. The problem I see is that rocks found below about 7 km of sediment tend to be low quality, temperature and pressure increase to the outer limits, and this hurts the economic returns to such an extent that looking for that deep oil can be a dicey business. Salt and water are also less dense than most other overburden. Societies dont produce energy, businesses do. The GI is located on the West Ridge of the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus. The challenge of retrieving broken (and often expensive) equipment obstructing a well fishing began tormenting oil and natural gas exploration companies since the first tool stuck irretrievably at 134 feet deep and ruined a Pennsylvania well. I would wager that more is being mined right at the surface today than at any point in history again, its technology and economics, not being forced to look elsewhere. 901-759-0029, Midtown / Memphis Campus
The reservoirs are relatively shallow, young (Miocene to Pliocene Epochs) and the entire total petroleum system is within the Neogene Period (less than 23 million years old. Theres no evidence of significant abiotic oil formation on Earth at any time in its history. We also plugged back and made a gas completion at 12,800 feet. It has nothing to do with oil formation, although it is one of the ways that large amounts of potential source material has been lost. Cracking in solids is essentially the same as the cracking of long chain hydrocarbons. The well was plugged back and completed in the Granite Wash from 11,000 to 13,200 feet as a natural gas producer. So, if not the O-14, which oil well is the deepest in the world? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/02/18/oil-where-did-it-come-from/. In terms of true vertical depth, the Bertha Rogers No 1 natural gas well in the Anadarko Basin used to be the deepest in the world, at over 31,400 feet. Actually hothouses dont work like Arrhenius thought. Work continued until the project was abandoned in 1989 because the drill became stuck in rock at a little over 12km (almost 40,000ft or 8 miles) deep. Oklahoma extracts the brine from a 9,800 feet (3,000 m) deep well. This motion is typically a few inches per year. https://wtf.tw/ref/tainter.pdf, https://youtu.be/GzuviYRse3E about 3 minutes. 1 reached a total depth of 31,441 feet - where it encountered liquid sulfur. These natural waves allow us to see inside the Earth as they react to various layers, much as x-rays or MRIs allow us to view inside the human body. Setting aside the fact that the oil & gas havent been trapped anywhere for 400 million years What does gravity have to do with oil & gas migrating upward? In the mid-1990s, Russia opened up its oil & gas potential to western companies and ExxonMobil went to work: Here is the Fuel Fighter infographic at the same scale as a cross-section of the Chayvo oilfield: Apotria, Ted, Poffenberger, Mike, Powell, Rick & Venner, Bridget. One of the more interesting was the Lone Star Producing Companys Bertha Rogers #1 in the Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma. This article takes us on a very interesting walk-about below ground. It can take 100s of thousands to millions of years for oil & gas to form and then begin the long, slow process of migration from the source rocks into porous and permeable reservoir rocks with overlying impermeable rocks and lateral trapping mechanisms. On November 26, 2005, Vijaypat Singhania set the world altitude record for highest hot-air-balloon flight, reaching 21,290 m (69,850 ft) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_altitude_record#Hot-air_balloons, And for good measure, renown hang glider pilot, Judy Leden broke the World Hang Gliding Altitude Record by being towed to 41,307 feet by a hot air balloon. Engineers tend towards MD because thats where things actually are in the wellbore. The Bertha Rogers No. Remains of birds (which are dinosaurs) are slightly more common. But I invite scientists more knowledgeable than me to comment on this., The greatest subduction is at the edges of the plates, such as on the American West Coast, where the North American plate is overriding the Pacific plate, which is plunging down into the mantle. 1 had to be completed at just 14,000 feet after striking molten sulfur at 31,441 feet. Now I hear they are leasing drilling beneath the gas pay zones. Geologists knew far more about finding coal seams than characteristics of oil-bearing formations. If someone has not taken the time read and understand those posts they really should not clog up the comments with the same old rhetoric. Small forges were often just feet from the well bore. The guy had style though: He shot himself through the heart, not the head. The second drilling campaign at the Chayvo field, located offshore Sakhalin Island, targeted a new reservoir zone using extended-reach wells from onshore. Nonporous shale is shattered by high pressure fluids, and then the cracks are propped open with sand or some such material. The zones were layers, about 7 potential zones, the Granite Wash was the last one to test as you came uphole. New patients are welcome. Geos tend toward TVD because its the only way to correlate the well with other wells and the seismic data. According to Lone Star Producing Company, the bottom hole pressure and temperature were an estimated 24,850 pounds per square inch and 475 degrees Fahrenheit respectively. "Anadarko Basin," Vertical File, Research Division, Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City. That first map chart showing highest clouds at 29,000 feet is ridiculously wrong, as I am sure most people here know. Most recently, geologically speaking, the whole of the North American plate has been moving westward, and lands, island chains, small continents, pieces of ocean floor, etc, have been accreted onto the plate as it moved west and overran what used to be there. Other times the whole area was lifted up by compressional forces when continents collided, which is what raised the mountains to begin with. How deep into the ground do we have to go to tap the resources we need to keep the lights on? Recommended Reading:History Of Oil Well Drilling(2007); The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power (1991);The Extraction State, A History of Natural Gas in America(2021). Its based on over 100 years of drilling. And further west, there is also a long history of various cycles and processes, including uplift, erosion, sedimentation, further uplift, etc. Whether the glass is transparent to IR or not is irrelevant. Producible oil doesnt exist below the oil window, only gas. To fish for stuck tools, these were lowered in well, armed at their end with a die with a left-hand thread cut in it. Downstream from the Himalaya and the Rockies respectively. And just as compression can uplift the land, at other times this compression may slacked, and the uplifted terrain then gets stretched out and drops. Merchant of Record: A Media Solutions trading as Oilprice.com. Union is nationally recognized for Christ-centered academic excellence and exceptional value. Wells drilled here have been among the worlds deepest. We seem to be living through a period of time where facts have become pass. Given what I know, drilling below 10 thousand meters vertical depth is a waste of money. WWS, what you describe as the subduction of the Pacific plate is actually a much more complicated situation, involving a series of plates and faults and features being subducted, and also accreted onto, and sliding past, the North American plate. However, if hydrocarbons (both gas and liquid) tend to percolate/migrate upward against gravity, as others have mentioned, one wonders what mechanism/geology is so effective at preventing gas diffusion for as long as 400 million years? Did it ever pay out the cost of drilling to 31,000? Fourier maintained that the atmosphere acts like the glass of a hothouse, because it lets through the light rays of the sun but retains the dark rays from the ground. How do we know? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracking_(chemistry), Hey, I was pretty close for a simple explanation. Renewed assessment of some 22,000 cubic miles of deep sediments may carry over into the 21st Century. Digging a hole straight down would seem to be the most effective way to study the Earths interior. However, if hydrocarbons (both gas and liquid) tend to percolate/migrate upward against gravity, as others have mentioned, one wonders what mechanism/geology is so effective at preventing gas diffusion for as long as 400 million years? The layered zones made it practical to dill these very deep wells as a field. The process is sedimentation. First, define the approachof each thinker and then compare and. Among the fishing tools at the mans feet are 3.5-inch iron poles, each 20 feet in length and weighing 500 pounds. A 19th century cable-tool rig, like its ancient predecessor the spring pole, utilized percussion drilling the repeated lifting and dropping of a heavy chisel using hemp ropes. Because of dangerous downhole conditions, including corrosive pockets of hydrogen sulfide, the historic well had to be completed at a shallower depth. Indeed the reply is usually Well those are just your numbersand if I push the point further that they are not my numbers but the real data the reply is usually either that I work in the oil industry so am automatically biased or that they do not want to discuss this anymore with a denier or finally I get the nail in the head, the infantile consensus argument. Bad and unhealthy habit.) I have a little desk plaque with two pockets one containing sulfur crystals and the other with rock cuttings from the Bertha Rogers Well. Actually, the Earth does have a shell, called the crust. Im late to this post and made a comment that will appear above. This being the case, and the places where this is true being relatively rare, it has to be assumed that most of the oil in gas below ground never percolates into such a place. The trouble is the ambiguity of Measured Depth, which is really the length of the bore and only vaguely linked to actual depth. Way out of my comfort zone and not trying to speak for DM, but cracking I think is an industry term for the breakdown of long petroleum hydrocarbon chains into smaller ones, I guess which occurs at higher temperatures. But is the O-14 really 49,000 feet deep? On Russia's Kola Peninsula, near the Norwegian border at about the same latitude as Prudhoe Bay, the Soviets have been drilling a well since 1970. I can sort of understand the use of abiotic. But, dinosaurs implies that there isnt even a starting point for communication. Rosneft states it on its website, in a press release on the completion of O-14, that the total depth of the well, including the vertical and the directional section, is 15 km, of which the non-vertical section extends 14.13 km, or 46,900 feet. So the scientific ring leader alGore claims there are these incredibly hot rocks, several million degrees a couple of kilometers or so down. IOW, when someone finds oil where no sediments exist, then I think the idea will have some legs. We actually do know where oil comes from. https://youtu.be/TEpKNla63Kw. The Bakken shale has a total organic carbon content (TOC) which averages about 11%. In both cases, the crust overlies a mantle which can be detected because it transmits seismic waves at a distinctly higher velocity than does the crust, although there are also velocity variations within the crust itself. Just-So stories in the garb of hypotheses support many current theories. Their chief innovation was that, instead of turning the drill bit by rotating the stem, in the Kola well the bit alone was turned by the flow of drilling mud. Its Abiotic, Rockefeller had his hand in creating the label, Fossil Fuel Nonsense. It has been an intracratonic depression since at least the Cambrian Period >500 million years. However nearby hydrothermal vents with little to no sediment cover (rises) do not exhibit evidence of hydrothermal oil.. A 2014 geologic map of 50,000 square mile Anadarko Basin showing thickness of strata courtesy U.S. Geological Survey. My quick Web search only turned up a reference to isotope dating Alberta oil sand deposits to 112 million years ago: https://phys.org/news/2005-05-world-age-oil.html . When the overburden consists of 8,000 of seawater and 2,000 of halite, 30,000 of overburden weighs a lot less than it does when its all composed of more dense rocks. Perhaps the most effective method has been from studying earthquake or seismic waves as they move from one sensing station to another. That guy was brave. Australias Green Transition Energy Price Caps are Causing Supply Side Chaos, ESG Check in: More details on the Securities & Exchange Commissions Activist Role in the Whole of Government Push on ESG, Climate Risk Disclosure, Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #536. There goes The Population Bomb! Long wells arent deep wells. While these depths are impressive, mining is limited by the frailty of the human body. I worked for Enserch from 1981-1997. In the Sweetwater Gas field ( Jct 6 & US 283 , north of Sayer, OK ) most of the wells in the field were drilled to 20k 25k ft. Sweetwater field is also the site of a huge blow out, the Apache Keys #1, in 1982, when the tree was blown off the wellhead. Anytime a graphic purports to equate altitude with depth in the Earth, you know the person(s) authoring the graphic are solely in it for publishing glory. Memphis, TN 38104
Thanks! Bertha Rogers. Irina is a writer for Oilprice.com with over a decade of experience writing on the oil and gas industry. It is a world class source rock. It fits perfectly with the point of the article. I have been in the real estate industry for over 15 years and I love being able to find the perfect home for any family. Unfortunately, at this depth the. Seabird deaths part of Arctic Report Card, Ancient moose antlers hint of early arrival. Interestingly, Fourier doesnt even mention hothouses or greenhouses, and actually stated that in order for the atmosphere to be anything like the glass of a hotbox, such as the experimental aparatus of de Saussure (1779), the air would have to solidify while conserving its optical properties (Fourier, 1827, p. 586; Fourier, 1824, translated by Burgess, 1837, pp. Submit a Correction He won an official Darwin Award for that. Well, if you say Mt. https://geology.com/articles/horizontal-drilling/. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/03/11/another-failed-energy-prediction-peak-oil-demand/, Subduction and burial (i.e., sedimentation) are two completely different processes. Very happy to have the memory of this and many more close shaves but I have moved on to live a very full and exciting life. The bottom line isnt denominated in joules, watts or Btu Its denominated in $$$. It was the deepest hole in the world until it was surpassed by a well in the Soviet Union several years later, Dorman reports. The greater the hole angle, the bigger the difference. Its not subduction. Cracking in solids is essentially the same as the cracking of long chain hydrocarbons. . But even back then and especially now with wells miles deep and often turned horizontally when a downhole problem occurred, the well could be lost for good. Dont worry about what they call you. Andrew Breitbart |readmore, the worlds most viewed climate website In re-energizing America, Anadarko will not yield its gas easily or briefly. Several hundred of her poems appear in literary journals, anthologies, and in her poetry collections, including Wild, Again; Heart Turned Back; Sleeper, You Wake; Even the Hemlock; A House of Corners; and The Fourth Beast. Thanks for this precautionary tale of internet inaccuracies, illustrating succinctly why skepticism is an intrinsic part of a rational mind. *Until 2004 the Bertha Rogers No. It took over 50 years for anyone to beat his record. What other types of materials might exist unexpectedly way down there? In challenging the inventive enterprise of Americas energy industry, this Basin will remain the heartland of technology in penetrating the earths crust. While they are moving around, they can have stuff eroded off of them, piled onto them, or extruded onto or into them by volcanoes. Kenny A. Franks, The Oklahoma Petroleum Industry (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980). Jonathon Moseley, American Thinker, flashy (apparently widely distributed) Michael E. Mann, Material on this website is copyright 2006-2022, by Anthony Watts, and may not be stored or archived separately, rebroadcast, or republished without written permission. Why did he want the label for oil,,, Because he knows how to make money, make appear that there is a limited supply, thus creating a monopoly and controlling the price.. Do your own research on whether Oil comes from plant matter, etc. Add in lazy research and their products are bad jokes. Denver, Colo : U.S. Dept. Sorry, thats for Gordon, not DM. 1 reached a total depth of 31,441 feet where it encountered liquid sulfur. If this was the only time anyone drilled so deep and that is what happened, and it was unexpected or a unique finding, does that not make it a very interesting question, re what the hell else is down there that no one knows about or predicted? I think perhaps you could learn some very interesting science by starting at the beginning and learning about the science of geology in a systematic way. The cable-tool rigs manila rope or wire line would break. Individuals should consider whether they can afford the risks associated to trading. Not actual cracking. 1 well have been carried out: total organic carbon, Soxhlet extraction and silica gel chromatography, C15+ saturated and aromatic hydrocarbon gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, pyrolysis, kerogen analysis, X-ray diffraction and visual kerogen analysis. My thought would be that the molten sulfur was either gaseous or liquid hydrogen sulfide or even sulfur dioxide. That announcement was 14 years ago, and I could not find a more recent article or publication on using this technique on oil. The standard commercial airline flight height is 39,000 feet. This could possibly account for molten sulfur. Sometimes many inches, sometimes barely moving, or just sitting mostly still, or spinning. Employment
I was always dubious of hydrocarbon of biogenic origin this deep in the earth. The deepest Bakken is about 8,500 below sea level. The Sierra Nevada contains some of these types of features, which subsequent erosion brought to the surface. Fuel Fighter Probably not. And sometimes there are periods theres less river flow and carbonates are deposited on the sea floor as little critters die and their shells fall to the bottom. It is now over 40,000 feet deep, making it the deepest hole on earth (the previous record holder was the Bertha Rogers well in Oklahoma--a gas well stopped at 32,000 feet when it struck molten sulfur). All rights reserved. On April 13, 1974, Bertha Rogers No. If one is aware that they do not know something, it is possible to learn, easy even. It was a beauty. Athletics
Its not only not the worlds deepest oil well, its about 20,000 shy of the deepest oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, possibly deepest in the world. I do remember reading about the deepest hole ever drilled, and how it turned out to be a huge waste of money, but not sure if this was the same project? I was at a lecture regarding super-volcanoes the Bruneau/Jarbidge in sw Idaho. Drilling usually would continue into the night, illuminated by two-wicked yellow dog lanterns. Independent producer John West in 2006 preserved artifacts in the closed Anadarko Basin Museum of Natural History in Elk City, Oklahoma. 1) No reasonable explanation for why hypothesized abiotic oil production would not have existed sometime prior to about 500 Ma ago, given Earths approximate age of 4,500 Ma. Roughnecking jobs today are for sissies and weaklings. The Burj is a meager 2,722 feet tall by comparison. 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